I can't wait to get home and see this video! Is this really possible? Big bang and mini black holes? Have I turned a blind eye for that long? Damn!! That is so cool! But of course I need to see the video first.

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I can't wait to get home and see this video! Is this really possible? Big bang and mini black holes? Have I turned a blind eye for that long? Damn!! That is so cool! But of course I need to see the video first.

Well apparently what they're doing will being able to test the big bang theory and black hole theory on a small scale because of the intense energies it'll produce.Really intriguing stuff!

Anyone know where i can keep up to date with what's going on over there?

Anyone know where i can keep up to date with what's going on over there?

Yes please.

Cygnus X-1 in my backyard, utterly amazing stuff.

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In 2006, Brian Cox came out here for Australia's National Science Week and I went to see him talk about it. That's when I first properly heard about CERN's LHC project. It was really mind-boggling to consider exactly what they were hoping to uncover. He managed to explain it fairly well to us n00bs. I think just getting to this point in human knowledge is amazing. I'm truly impressed by modern particle physics, even if this project ends up being a bit of an anti-climax.

I may sound like a newb for asking this, but what exactly does it do? As far as I know, it collides hadrons, and it's large.

Haha, that's about the whole of it

They've got two seperate rings around the 26km accelerator, and each one will have protons going around at almost the speed of light.One ring goes one way, one goes the other ...And there's 4 'colliding chambers' around the LHC, such as ATLAS, and in those chambers, the two rings cross eachother, and well ... that's where the action happens There's incredible cameras in each chamber, and basically they're just going to look at what comes out of the collisions, and hope to find the Higgs Boson, and maybe evidence for higher dimensions and whatever else they're looking for

I may sound like a newb for asking this, but what exactly does it do? As far as I know, it collides hadrons, and it's large.

Haha, that's about the whole of it

They've got two seperate rings around the 26km accelerator, and each one will have protons going around at almost the speed of light.One ring goes one way, one goes the other ...And there's 4 'colliding chambers' around the LHC, such as ATLAS, and in those chambers, the two rings cross eachother, and well ... that's where the action happens There's incredible cameras in each chamber, and basically they're just going to look at what comes out of the collisions, and hope to find the Higgs Boson, and maybe evidence for higher dimensions and whatever else they're looking for

Hope i've helped

You have, quite a bit. Thanks. How do they manage to accelerate the particles that fast?

I'm not too sure on the whole Physics of it really, complex stuff hahaAll i know is that they need to cool the system to almost absolute zero (-273oc) by using liquid Helium or something for it to work, and that a lot of magnets are used to accelerate and guide the protons around the ring.So i'm guessing they have pretty powerful magnets :

I may sound like a newb for asking this, but what exactly does it do? As far as I know, it collides hadrons, and it's large.

Haha, that's about the whole of it

They've got two seperate rings around the 26km accelerator, and each one will have protons going around at almost the speed of light.One ring goes one way, one goes the other ...And there's 4 'colliding chambers' around the LHC, such as ATLAS, and in those chambers, the two rings cross eachother, and well ... that's where the action happens There's incredible cameras in each chamber, and basically they're just going to look at what comes out of the collisions, and hope to find the Higgs Boson, and maybe evidence for higher dimensions and whatever else they're looking for

Hope i've helped

You have, quite a bit. Thanks. How do they manage to accelerate the particles that fast?

Heat and pressure speed up the particals, takes days to get it fast enough. Or something like that.

Oh And What If...They create loads of little blackholes that join into one, and get like massive, so they cant control it, and it sucks in the earth?Think that would ever happen?

(Be nice in the answer Im only young and stupid!!)

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I may sound like a newb for asking this, but what exactly does it do? As far as I know, it collides hadrons, and it's large.

Haha, that's about the whole of it

They've got two seperate rings around the 26km accelerator, and each one will have protons going around at almost the speed of light.One ring goes one way, one goes the other ...And there's 4 'colliding chambers' around the LHC, such as ATLAS, and in those chambers, the two rings cross eachother, and well ... that's where the action happens There's incredible cameras in each chamber, and basically they're just going to look at what comes out of the collisions, and hope to find the Higgs Boson, and maybe evidence for higher dimensions and whatever else they're looking for

Hope i've helped

You have, quite a bit. Thanks. How do they manage to accelerate the particles that fast?

Heat and pressure speed up the particals, takes days to get it fast enough. Or something like that.

Oh And What If...They create loads of little blackholes that join into one, and get like massive, so they cant control it, and it sucks in the earth?Think that would ever happen?

(Be nice in the answer Im only young and stupid!!)

I think it would be a fancy way to go.

And I too am young and stupid. I bet I'm younger than almost all of you guys on this forum.

I may sound like a newb for asking this, but what exactly does it do? As far as I know, it collides hadrons, and it's large.

Haha, that's about the whole of it

They've got two seperate rings around the 26km accelerator, and each one will have protons going around at almost the speed of light.One ring goes one way, one goes the other ...And there's 4 'colliding chambers' around the LHC, such as ATLAS, and in those chambers, the two rings cross eachother, and well ... that's where the action happens There's incredible cameras in each chamber, and basically they're just going to look at what comes out of the collisions, and hope to find the Higgs Boson, and maybe evidence for higher dimensions and whatever else they're looking for

Hope i've helped

You have, quite a bit. Thanks. How do they manage to accelerate the particles that fast?

Heat and pressure speed up the particals, takes days to get it fast enough. Or something like that.

Oh And What If...They create loads of little blackholes that join into one, and get like massive, so they cant control it, and it sucks in the earth?Think that would ever happen?

(Be nice in the answer Im only young and stupid!!)

It's not heat that does it, because the system is cooled down to almost -273oc before using it

And the possibility of creating black holes is minute, but if they do, it's predicted that they wont even last 1 second because they'd be so unstable If what you said could happen though, it'd be a good way to go wouldn't it :

It is cooled down to -274K, but they then create an explosion of sorts, by colliding the particles. Cooling it down is just to create the same sort of conditions that the Big Bang would've occurred in. It doesn't stay that cold - energy will be released.

Collisions of the same kind happen out in space and to the earth all the time, and they don't eat the universe.

Well, they are accelerating mostly Lead ions. Ions are charged atomic nuclei, charged because they have too few electrons, in this case, probably none at all. Any charged particle will accelerate in the presence of a magnetic field. The LHC has superconducting magnets along it's entire ring...

It is cooled down to -274K, but they then create an explosion of sorts, by colliding the particles. Cooling it down is just to create the same sort of conditions that the Big Bang would've occurred in. It doesn't stay that cold - energy will be released.

The magnets are cooled, not the collision chamber. The cooling doesn't affect the collision/particle explosion.

Cooling the magnets is necessary because they are superconducting magnets, and superconductivity only occurs at very low temperature. Although scientists are trying to achieve higher temperature superconductivity. (ie: room temperature)

Well, they are accelerating mostly Lead ions. Ions are charged atomic nuclei, charged because they have too few electrons, in this case, probably none at all. Any charged particle will accelerate in the presence of a magnetic field. The LHC has superconducting magnets along it's entire ring...